Join us for our very first 'in-house Skool Call' live session inside The Actors Copilot Green Room on Thursday 17 September. 7 p.m. London | 8 p.m. Paris | 11 a.m. Los Angeles If time zones make your head spin, don’t worry, we’ve added a converter under 'Actor Resources' in the Classroom! Claire has worked as a 1st Assistant Director on major productions and has studied just about every scriptwriting book imaginable. In this session, she’ll explore the Hero’s Journey, based on the ideas in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Claire will show us how actors can use this framework to understand where their character is in the story, track their transformation and make stronger, more specific choices from the script. Come along, bring your questions and use this link - https://www.skool.com/the-actors-copilot/about to invite your acting friends to join our free community as we learn, connect and grow together. See you there!

We want to let you in on something, because it comes straight from the people who actually make the decisions. Every casting director Claire has worked with, and every one we have spoken to since, watches self-tapes from the same angle. And it is not the one most actors are pouring their energy into. They are not really watching how you deliver. They are watching how you listen. The reaction is where the job is won. The pause. The thought that moves through you while the other person is still speaking. The half-second before you answer. That is the part you cannot fake, and it is the part casting leans in for, because it is the proof that you are actually in the scene and not just reciting it well. So the next time you set up a tape, stop rehearsing your delivery and start living in the listening. Track the thought. Let it land on you before you respond. Do not push it anywhere. Play the thought, and trust the camera to catch it. The lens reads what you are genuinely thinking long before it reads what you are trying to show. That is the difference between a tape that is technically good and a tape casting remembers. Here is one that has always stayed with me. Watch Kelly Reilly in Yellowstone in the moments she is not speaking. She can sit dead still, say nothing, and you can see the whole storm going on behind her eyes. She is not showing you anything. She is thinking it, and she trusts the camera to catch it. That is the entire lesson in one look. The truth is in the listening. She never tries to show it to you. She just thinks it, and lets us come to her. Now we want to hear yours. When was the last time a reaction, and not a line, stayed with you from something you watched? Tell us the actor, tell us the moment. Let us build a list together and learn from it. We will be running a Casting Tips series in the Classroom. Let's go do the real work. Tracey and Claire ❤️

September's Live From The Cockpit guest is acclaimed director, writer and producer Amit Gupta. Amit is the filmmaker behind some of the most ambitious storytelling on television, directing on His Dark Materials, We Were the Lucky Ones, Dark Matter and Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender. He's a director trusted with vast worlds, heavy visual effects and delicate, human performances in equal measure. But his story starts on the independent side. He wrote and directed his debut feature Resistance, starring Michael Sheen and Andrea Riseborough, adapted from Owen Sheers' novel. He followed it with the warm, funny Jadoo, a food feud family comedy set in Leicester, and then One Crazy Thing, building a body of work rooted in character before stepping into premium global television. And this one is personal for us. We've both worked with Amit: Tracey on We Were the Lucky Ones, which he directed, and Claire alongside him as 1st assistant director. We've seen how he works up close, how he directs actors, shapes a script and delivers at the highest level, and we can tell you he's exactly the kind of voice you want in your corner. He knows what a director is really looking for when you walk into the room, and what makes a performance land. 📅 24 September ⏰ 7 p.m. BST, and if you're confused what time that is wherever you are in the world, install your 'Time Zone Converter' tool in the Classroom under Actor Resource Apps xxx 📍 Live inside The Actors Copilot Green Room on Skool And mark your calendar for Bonnie Rodini on 22 October. It's networking that gets you noticed. Please share with your actor friends to join the Green Room free today and become part of a growing international community of serious actors. They'll also gain access to previous masterclasses with leading industry professionals, practical actor resources, career guidance and a community committed to helping one another move forward. Because actors spend far too much time trying to get into the room.